#Opera/Recitals

Wednesday 30 October 2024, at 8 pm, Opéra Garnier Monte-Carlo
Opéra de Monte-Carlo, 2024/25 season. Concert performance. Conductor: Giacomo Sagripanti. Choirmaster: Stefano Visconti. Opera in three acts. Music by Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924). Libretto by Giuseppe Adami based on a German text by Alfred Willner and Heinz Reichert. First performed: Monaco, Opéra de Monte-Carlo, 27 March 1917.

Friday 8 November 2024, at 8 pm, Grimaldi Forum Monaco
Opéra de Monte-Carlo, 2024/25 season. Opera. Conductor: Marco Armiliato. Director: Jean-Louis Grinda. Opera in four acts. Music by Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924). Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica, based on Henry Murger's Scènes de la vie de bohème (1849). First performed: Turin, Teatro Regio, 1 February 1896.

Sunday 10 November 2024, at 3 pm, Grimaldi Forum Monaco
Opéra de Monte-Carlo, 2024/25 season. Opera. Conductor: Marco Armiliato. Director: Jean-Louis Grinda. Opera in four acts. Music by Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924). Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica, based on Henry Murger's Scènes de la vie de bohème (1849). First performed: Turin, Teatro Regio, 1 February 1896.

Wednesday 13 November 2024, at 8 pm, Grimaldi Forum Monaco
Opéra de Monte-Carlo, 2024/25 season. Opera. Conductor: Marco Armiliato. Director: Jean-Louis Grinda. Opera in four acts. Music by Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924). Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica, based on Henry Murger's Scènes de la vie de bohème (1849). First performed: Turin, Teatro Regio, 1 February 1896.

Tuesday 19 November 2024, at 7 pm, Grimaldi Forum Monaco
Opéra de Monte-Carlo, 2024/25 season. Opera. Conductor: Marco Armiliato. Director: Jean-Louis Grinda. Opera in four acts. Music by Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924). Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica, based on Henry Murger's Scènes de la vie de bohème (1849). First performed: Turin, Teatro Regio, 1 February 1896. By invitation of the Palace.

Friday 15 November 2024, at 8 pm, Grimaldi Forum Monaco
Opéra de Monte-Carlo, 2024/25 season. Concert performance. Conductor: Marco Armiliato. Choirmaster: Stefano Visconti. Opera in three acts. Music by Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924). Libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, based on Victorien Sardou's play La Tosca. First performed: Rome, Teatro Costanzi, 14 January 1900.

Sunday 17 November 2024, at 5 pm, Grimaldi Forum Monaco
Opéra de Monte-Carlo, 2024/25 season. Gala. Conductor: Marco Armiliato. Tenor: Jonas Kaufmann. Puccini's finest arias…

Monday 2 December 2024, at 8 pm, Opéra Garnier Monte-Carlo
Opéra de Monte-Carlo, 2024/25 season. Operatic concert. Conductor: Demo Morselli. Tenor: Vittorio Grigolo.

Friday 20 December 2024, at 8 pm, Opéra Garnier Monte-Carlo
Opéra de Monte-Carlo, 2024/25 season. Opera. Conductor: Gianluca Capuano. Director: Adriano Sinivia. Melodramma giocoso in two acts. Music by Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848). Libretto by Felice Romani, after Eugène Scribe's "Le Philtre". First performed: Milan, Teatro alla Canobbiana, 12 May 1832.

Sunday 22 December 2024, at 3 pm, Opéra Garnier Monte-Carlo
Opéra de Monte-Carlo, 2024/25 season. Opera. Conductor: Gianluca Capuano. Director: Adriano Sinivia. Melodramma giocoso in two acts. Music by Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848). Libretto by Felice Romani, after Eugène Scribe's "Le Philtre". First performed: Milan, Teatro alla Canobbiana, 12 May 1832.

Friday 27 December 2024, at 8 pm, Opéra Garnier Monte-Carlo
Opéra de Monte-Carlo, 2024/25 season. Opera. Conductor: Gianluca Capuano. Director: Adriano Sinivia. Melodramma giocoso in two acts. Music by Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848). Libretto by Felice Romani, after Eugène Scribe's "Le Philtre". First performed: Milan, Teatro alla Canobbiana, 12 May 1832.

Sunday 29 December 2024, at 3 pm, Opéra Garnier Monte-Carlo
Opéra de Monte-Carlo, 2024/25 season. Opera. Conductor: Gianluca Capuano. Director: Adriano Sinivia. Melodramma giocoso in two acts. Music by Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848). Libretto by Felice Romani, after Eugène Scribe's "Le Philtre". First performed: Milan, Teatro alla Canobbiana, 12 May 1832.

Tuesday 31 December 2024, at 6 pm, Opéra Garnier Monte-Carlo
Opéra de Monte-Carlo, 2024/25 season. Opera. Conductor: Gianluca Capuano. Director: Adriano Sinivia. Melodramma giocoso in two acts. Music by Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848). Libretto by Felice Romani, after Eugène Scribe's "Le Philtre". First performed: Milan, Teatro alla Canobbiana, 12 May 1832.

Saturday 21 December 2024, at 8 pm, Opéra Garnier Monte-Carlo
Opéra de Monte-Carlo, 2024/25 season. Choral concert. Conductor: Gianluca Capuano. Choirmaster: Stefano Visconti. Oratorio (cantatas I to III). Music by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750). Texts from the Gospel according to Luke 2:6-20. Additional texts by Christian Friedrich Henrici, Johann Rist, Paul Gerhardt, Martin Luther, and Christoph Runge. First performed: Leipzig, St. Nicholas Church & St. Thomas Church, 25 to 27 December 1734.

Sunday 19 January 2025, at 7 pm, Auditorium Rainier III
Opéra de Monte-Carlo, 2024/25 season. Semi-staged operatic performance. Conductor: Bertrand de Billy. Choirmaster: Stefano Visconti. Dramma giocoso in two acts KV 527. Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791). Libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. First performed: Prague National Theatre, 29 October 1787. Part of the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra's "Mozart in Monaco" programme.

Wednesday 22 January 2025, at 8 pm, Opéra Garnier Monte-Carlo
Opéra de Monte-Carlo, 2024/25 season. Opera. Conductor: Gianluca Capuano. Director: Jetske Mijnssen. Opera seria in two acts K. 621. Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791). Libretto by Caterino Mazzolà, after Pietro Metastasio and based on Suetonius' The Twelve Caesars. First performed: Prague, Stavovské divadlo [Estates Theatre], 6 September 1791, to celebrate the coronation of Leopold II as King of Bohemia. Part of the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra's "Mozart in Monaco" programme.

Friday 24 January 2025, at 8 pm, Opéra Garnier Monte-Carlo
Opéra de Monte-Carlo, 2024/25 season. Opera. Conductor: Gianluca Capuano. Director: Jetske Mijnssen. Opera seria in two acts K. 621. Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791). Libretto by Caterino Mazzolà, after Pietro Metastasio and based on Suetonius' The Twelve Caesars. First performed: Prague, Stavovské divadlo [Estates Theatre], 6 September 1791, to celebrate the coronation of Leopold II as King of Bohemia. Part of the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra's "Mozart in Monaco" programme.

Sunday 26 January 2025, at 3 pm, Opéra Garnier Monte-Carlo
Opéra de Monte-Carlo, 2024/25 season. Opera. Conductor: Gianluca Capuano. Director: Jetske Mijnssen. Opera seria in two acts K. 621. Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791). Libretto by Caterino Mazzolà, after Pietro Metastasio and based on Suetonius' The Twelve Caesars. First performed: Prague, Stavovské divadlo [Estates Theatre], 6 September 1791, to celebrate the coronation of Leopold II as King of Bohemia. Part of the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra's "Mozart in Monaco" programme.

Tuesday 28 January 2025, at 8 pm, Opéra Garnier Monte-Carlo
Opéra de Monte-Carlo, 2024/25 season. Opera. Conductor: Gianluca Capuano. Director: Jetske Mijnssen. Opera seria in two acts K. 621. Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791). Libretto by Caterino Mazzolà, after Pietro Metastasio and based on Suetonius' The Twelve Caesars. First performed: Prague, Stavovské divadlo [Estates Theatre], 6 September 1791, to celebrate the coronation of Leopold II as King of Bohemia. Part of the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra's "Mozart in Monaco" programme.

Sunday 23 February 2025, at 3 pm, Opéra Garnier Monte-Carlo
Opéra de Monte-Carlo, 2024/25 season. Opera. Conductor: Gianluca Capuano. Director: Davide Livermore. Prelude to Der Ring des Nibelungen. Music and libretto by Richard Wagner (1813-1883). First performed: Munich, National Theatre, 22 September 1869.

Wednesday 19 February 2025, at 8 pm, Opéra Garnier Monte-Carlo
Opéra de Monte-Carlo, 2024/25 season. Opera. Conductor: Gianluca Capuano. Director: Davide Livermore. Prelude to Der Ring des Nibelungen. Music and libretto by Richard Wagner (1813-1883). First performed: Munich, National Theatre, 22 September 1869.

Friday 21 February 2025, at 8 pm, Opéra Garnier Monte-Carlo
Opéra de Monte-Carlo, 2024/25 season. Opera. Conductor: Gianluca Capuano. Director: Davide Livermore. Prelude to Der Ring des Nibelungen. Music and libretto by Richard Wagner (1813-1883). First performed: Munich, National Theatre, 22 September 1869.

Sunday 9 February 2025, at 5 pm, Opéra Garnier Monte-Carlo
Opéra de Monte-Carlo, 2024/25 season. Recital Tenor: Benjamin Bernheim Piano! Carrie-Ann Matheson Programme (subject to change): Ernest Chausson, Poème de l’Amour et de la Mer. Hector Berlioz, Les Nuits d’été. Henri Duparc, L’invitation au Voyage, Phidylé, La Vie Antérieure, Extase

Sunday 2 March 2025, at 6 pm, Auditorium Rainier III
Opéra de Monte-Carlo, 2024/25 season. Concert. Conductor: Philippe Jordan. Tristan: Andreas Schager. Isolde: Anja Kampe. Music and libretto by Richard Wagner (1813-1883). First performed: Munich, Royal Bavarian Court Theatre, 10 June 1865. Prelude: Adagio from Symphony No. 10 in F-sharp major (c. 1910 – unfinished) by Gustav Mahler (1860-1911). En collaboration avec l’Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo et en prélude au Printemps des Arts de Monte-Carlo.

Friday 14 March 2025, at 8 pm, Cathédrale Notre-Dame-Immaculée de Monaco
Opéra de Monte-Carlo, 2024/25 season. Choral concert. Conductor: Gianluca Capuano. Choirmaster: Jacopo Facchini. Vespro della Beata Vergine (1610) SV 206 in 14 sections. Dedicated to Pope Paul V (1552-1621). Music by Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643). First performed: Mantua, Basilica Palatina di Santa Barbara, 25 March 1610. Prelude: World premiere of Venezianischer Morgen by Bruno Mantovani (b. 1974), commissioned by Opéra de Monte-Carlo. In collaboration with the Salzburg Whitsun Festival and Printemps des Arts de Monte-Carlo.

Friday 21 March 2025, at 8 pm, Opéra Garnier Monte-Carlo
Opéra de Monte-Carlo, 2024/25 season. Opera. Conductor: Kazuki Yamada. Director: Jean-Louis Grinda. Opera in one act and 21 scenes. Music by Maurice Ravel (1875-1937). Libretto by Franc-Nohain (Maurice Étienne Legrand), after his play of the same name (1904). First performed: Paris, Opéra-Comique, 19 May 1911. Opera in two parts. Music by Maurice Ravel (1875-1937). Libretto by Colette. First performed: Monte-Carlo, Théâtre de l'Opéra, 21 March 1925.

Sunday 23 March 2025, at 3 pm, Opéra Garnier Monte-Carlo
Opéra de Monte-Carlo, 2024/25 season. Opera. Conductor: Kazuki Yamada. Director: Jean-Louis Grinda. Opera in one act and 21 scenes. Music by Maurice Ravel (1875-1937). Libretto by Franc-Nohain (Maurice Étienne Legrand), after his play of the same name (1904). First performed: Paris, Opéra-Comique, 19 May 1911. Opera in two parts. Music by Maurice Ravel (1875-1937). Libretto by Colette. First performed: Monte-Carlo, Théâtre de l'Opéra, 21 March 1925.

Tuesday 25 March 2025, at 8 pm, Opéra Garnier Monte-Carlo
Opéra de Monte-Carlo, 2024/25 season. Opera. Conductor: Kazuki Yamada. Director: Jean-Louis Grinda. Opera in one act and 21 scenes. Music by Maurice Ravel (1875-1937). Libretto by Franc-Nohain (Maurice Étienne Legrand), after his play of the same name (1904). First performed: Paris, Opéra-Comique, 19 May 1911. Opera in two parts. Music by Maurice Ravel (1875-1937). Libretto by Colette. First performed: Monte-Carlo, Théâtre de l'Opéra, 21 March 1925.

Thursday 27 March 2025, at 8 pm, Opéra Garnier Monte-Carlo
Opéra de Monte-Carlo, 2024/25 season. Opera. Conductor: Kazuki Yamada. Director: Jean-Louis Grinda. Opera in one act and 21 scenes. Music by Maurice Ravel (1875-1937). Libretto by Franc-Nohain (Maurice Étienne Legrand), after his play of the same name (1904). First performed: Paris, Opéra-Comique, 19 May 1911. Opera in two parts. Music by Maurice Ravel (1875-1937). Libretto by Colette. First performed: Monte-Carlo, Théâtre de l'Opéra, 21 March 1925.